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- Vim - Vi IMproved. A clone of the UNIX text editor Vi. Very useful for
- editing programs and other plain ASCII text. Full Vi compatibility (except Q
- command, you don't need it). Includes most Ex commands.
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- Extra features above Vi: Multilevel undo, command line history, improved
- command line editing, command typeahead display, command to display yank
- buffers, possibility to edit binary files, line wrapping can be switched off,
- file name stack, can be adjusted to understand error messages from any
- compiler, shows current file name in window title, on-line help, etc.
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- Version 2.0, update to 1.27. Most important changes:
- - 'wrap' option to switch line wrapping on/off
- - filename completion is more like other programs and adjustable
- - automatic detection of CR/LF line separator
- - '-b' command line option to make editing binary files more easy
- - added abbreviation
- - :make command for quickly jumping to errors
- - MSDOS version uses bios calls for screen output, ansi.sys not needed
- - many small changes to make Vim more vi-compatible
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- Portability: Runs on MSDOS, Amiga and several UNIX versions.
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- Distribution:
- comp.binaries.ibm.pc: vim_dos.zip: MSDOS binary and documentation
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- comp.binaries.amiga: vim_bin.lha: Amiga binary and documentation
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- comp.sources.misc: shell archive with sources and documentation
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- The documentation is almost the same for all systems. For MSDOS CR-LF is used
- for line separator. For Amiga .info files are included. For the shell archive
- some files are uuencoded because of unprintable characters.
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- Vim is charityware. Read uganda.txt for details.
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